How News Organisations Should Work With AI Companies
17.03.2025
Earl J. Wilkinson, INMA, a top-class international expert on the global newspaper media
How news media organisations should work with AI companies to act quickly in the face of rapid technology advancements is the focus of this report
“How News Organisations Should Work With AI Companies” delves into:
• What LLMs are (and other key terms)
• Where news fits into AI
• What partnerships with AI companies can look like
• The AI company landscape
• AI middlemen
• What news organisations can do now
• Scenario planning
The report is the culmination of several months of INMA research, including conversations with various AI players, companies working on the peripheries of the technology, news organisations, and digging into the trends, technologies, and hands-on trials of numerous products.
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Muller Martini presented exciting Smart Factory solutions with partners
17.03.2025
Three Smart Factory solutions captivated countless visitors to the Muller Martini booth.
With 6,800 participants and 120 exhibitors presenting 40 live solutions, the event grew slightly once again. „We are proud that, together with our partners, we were able to present pioneering solutions during the four days of the trade fair that will shape the future of the digital printing industry,“ emphasized Bruno Müller, CEO of Muller Martini.
Impressive smart factory solutions
Three of these solutions captivated countless visitors to the Muller Martini booth. All three Smart Factory applications on display impressively demonstrated how Muller Martini can set new standards for end-to-end production processes in collaboration with its partners. Visitors experienced how a finished softcover book was produced inline from both the white roll and the white sheet – from the digital web-fed or sheet-fed printing machine to the cutting robot with subsequent sorting line, fully automated and without manual intervention. The Prinova Digital saddle stitcher on show also produced eight different saddle-stitched products in very short runs from the roll in a continuous process.
End-to-end networking
Muller Martini played all the cards when it came to connectivity at its stand. The Connex workflow system, key technology for the production of individualized print products, controlled all three lines from the digital printing press to the finished sorted product stack. The seamless integration of all production steps, from impositioning the print data to sorting the finished products, fascinated the trade visitors.
Sebastian Birzele, Head of Bindery at the German printing company C.H.Beck, was also particularly impressed: „Muller Martini has networked everything that can be networked on its booth. From the white roll to the finished book – it‘s fantastic to see how everything works seamlessly.“ He highlights the Vareo PRO perfect binder and the InfiniTrim cutting robot, which are perfect for digital printing productions, especially due to the elimination of changeover times. „This is going in exactly the right direction.“ The ability to implement individual customer requirements quickly and efficiently with these networked solutions is a decisive advantage in today‘s fast-moving printing industry.
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News companies should consider these 4 ideas of fact-checking
17.03.2025
Fact-checking predates Facebook and isn’t reliant upon it, but social media is where many people get information — and therefore is a crucial place to fact-check that information.
“I don’t believe this is going to be the end of fact-checking by any means,” Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network, said of Meta’s decision. “I believe the pendulum is going to swing back because fact-checking is so needed for an Internet era.”
Aaron Sharockman, executive director at Politifact, said he sees some positives in the Meta decision. “It gives great opportunity to rethink what we are as fact-checkers and how we present that information,” he said, referencing different platforms and ways to reach users.
From the IFCN Webinar presentation.
Here are a four things news organisations should consider with fact-checking:
1. Fact-checking can help readers make sense of an issue
Sharockman said he believes when the media focuses on covering “all sides” of an issue and simply quotes different perspectives, that abdicates responsibility for helping readers understand what is true.
“You, of course, talk to everyone on all sides of an issue, but journalists went through a phase of just quoting people equally and letting readers decide,” he said. “In reality, journalism is giving people accurate information and telling them what is true.”
The key to fact-checking, he said, is creating a process and being transparent.
2. Fact-checking is about more than politics
When we consider fact-checks, we often immediately think of those involving politics and politicians. That arena is ripe for fact-checking, of course. But fact-checking works well for many other topics, both nationally and locally, Sharockman said.
PolitiFact experimented with fact-checking in local communities, for instance, over the course of eight months and focused on such issues as roads, water issues, and downtown development.
“We can do effective fact-checking that people trust and believe,” Sharockman said. “There is still something there for journalism organisations even if you remove politics from fact-checking.”
3. Pick the right facts to check
Fact-checking is a rigorous and exhaustive process — it can take days or even weeks to get one fully reported and vetted, Sharockman said. So it’s important to find the right claims to fact-check.
For instance, if a fact is readily available online from multiple credible sources, it may not make sense to further fact-check it.
“Understand that it is a commitment,” Sharockman said. “So you don’t want to pick gotchas or things that seem trivial. You want to be looking at claims and narratives that your audience thinks are important. You need to be cautious and thoughtful about what you pick.”
4. AI doesn’t have a significant role in fact-checking — yet
We’ve seen people duped by AI-generated images and know AI has the potential to spread false claims — but does AI also help in fact-checking?
Drobnic Holan said AI can be challenging in a fact-checking context.
“In our experience so far, it has not been great at making determinations of factuality,” she said, noting AI is currently better as a language tool than as an arbiter of facts. However, she said AI is being used in other ways: IFCN has created a database of fact checks and added an AI interface to access it. The idea is that someone enters a question into a chatbot — like “does Vitamin C cure COVID?” — the chatbot will return results from the database of
fact-checks.
-by Amalie Nash-
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Müller Martini at the HID 2025 – Partnerships for Exciting Solutions
17.03.2025
Hunkeler Innovationdays 2025, Müller Martini
Innovative solutions for smart factories
At its own booth, Müller Martini will present three outstanding solutions for smart factories. These solutions combine the strengths of different partners, opening up new, undreamt-of possibilities that meet the requirements of the modern printing industry. Visitors can look forward to impressive applications demonstrating the flexibility and efficiency of a smart factory.
Inline production from the white signature to the finished
softcover book...
One highlight at the Müller Martini booth will be an inline solution for producing softcover books from white signatures in different formats and thicknesses. In cooperation with Heidelberg, the Jetfire 50 printing press will be presented, working in combination with the Starbook Sheetfolder from Hunkeler and the Vareo PRO perfect binder as well as the InfiniTrim trimming robot. This solution is characterized by minimal operating effort, efficient production processes and a wide variety of possible applications.
... and from the white roll to the finished softcover book!
In addition, another inline application will be presented, highlighting the process from the white roll to the finished softcover book. The product travels from the unprinted roll through the HP Advantage 2200 digital web press and the Starbook Plowfolder from Hunkeler, and is then finished on the Vareo PRO perfect binder and the InfiniTrim trimming robot. Designed for minimal staffing, this powerful production line enables efficient production of softcover books right from the white roller.
Saddle stitching: Flexible production
The highly automated Prinova Digital saddle stitcher will also be presented as part of the Hunkeler Innovationdays. This hybrid solution is ideal for the efficient, low-cost production of magazines, brochures and catalogs in small print runs. The Prinova Digital enables ultra-short setup times, offering an intuitive operating concept for maximum user-
friendliness.
Connex workflow system – efficiency and customization
Müller Martini will present its Connex workflow system as a key technology for the efficient, cost-effective production of customized and variable print products. The system controls all the solutions shown and ensures seamless integration of all production steps, from imposition of the print data to sorting of the finished products. Müller Martini will showcase the wide range of possibilities of the workflow system as well as the entire range of MMServices.
Unique opportunity
The Hunkeler Innovationdays 2025 offer a unique opportunity to experience the latest developments in digital print technology and to discuss with experts. Müller Martini invites anyone interested to get to know these three innovative solutions for smart factories in live demonstrations at the booth.
You can sign up for the trade fair at mullermartini.com/hid25.
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